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Māori mental health nurses have an important role in shaping the way health and social services respond to people with experience of mental health and/or addiction issues (Ministry of Health, 2012), as well as in supporting Māori whānau to achieve whanau ora (Te Puni Kokiri, 2013). With solutions to Māori wellbeing able to be found within Māori models, Māori whanau and the Māori workforce (Turia, cited in Baker, 2010), increasing the numbers of Māori health professionals is a recognised strategy by which to improve access to both health services, and holistic care models (Ratima, Brown, Garrett, Wikaire, Ngawati, Aspin, & Potaka, 2007). Māori mental health nurses are an indigenous response to effectively meeting the mental health and/or addiction needs of tangata whaiora and their whānau

Publishing Information

ISBN	978-1-877412-23-2